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Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Not Déise’s best day at the office
OVERALL it was a disappointing result West of the Shannon last Sunday, and certainly a long way off being our best day at the office.
Galway were well worthy of their 4-15 to 1-15 National League victory, and while that nine point winning margin may have flattered them to an extent they were undoubtedly the better side over the entirety of the game.
Nothing too disastrous though at this early stage in the new season, and with so many of the more established players that bit nearer to a return to duty there’s still so much to look forward to in the weeks and months to come.
Not for the first time our slowness in coming out of traps would, ultimately, cost us against the Tribesmen.
A goal down inside twenty seconds when Niall Healy hammered home Joe Gantley’s pass meant that we were playing catch up literally from the start, and things got considerably worse when our citadel fell for a second time in the 14th minute with man of the match Iarla Tannion the goalscorer.
We had to wait all of twenty five minutes to register our first score from play—-not nearly good enough given that we were also playing with the assistance of a stiff enough breeze. But in the closing ten minutes of the half there was so much more to admire about our performance as we ran Galway ragged and piled on the scores that had proven to be beyond us until then.
Shane Walsh’s goal in the 32nd minute brought us to within a point of the homesters, and inside another thirty seconds Richie Foley’s point had the sides level. All Waterford, now and Maurice Shanahan gave us the lead for the first time in the 35th minute, and when he found the target again from a free we retired at the break two points to the good——1-8 to 2-3.An unlikely but welcome scenario given that we had been trailing by seven after just a quarter of an hour.
ANOTHER SLOW START
Our inability to make any kind of decent start to either half was to cost us dearly last Sunday, and just as we had been rooted to the ground from the throw in for the opening moiety so we were again on the restart.
Inside three minutes Galway were in front with a hat trick of points, and though Richie Foley levelled with a great score in the 39th minute it was largely downhill for us thereafter.
A flurry of points eased always to safer pastures, and basically the roof caved in on our challenge when goalkeeper Adrian Power failed to deal adequately with Iarla Tannion’s speculative fifty metre delivery and the goal that resulted from the blunder gave Galway a now commanding 311 to 1-10 advantage in the 49th minute. Game over effectively.
To our fellows great credit they battled right to the end but by now the result had inevitability etched all over it.
Goal number four on fifty four minutes merely confirmed all of that, and in truth the final whistle when it came hadn’t come one second to soon from our perspective.
NOT END OF THE WORLD
A major disappointment undoubtedly, but far from being the end of the world either. Even in defeat there were positives to be taken from the game, and I’m pretty certain too the continuing policy of experimentation will have told management quite a lot in terms of the immediate future.
The defeat I would describe as nothing other than a blip on the radar, and with Justin McCarthy’s Limerick next up at Fraher Field on Sunday week there’s a near immediate opportunity to return to winning ways.
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